“It was a successful year for New Jersey’s growing cannabis market, affirming the efficacy of our approach to building a market on a framework of social equity and public safety.” By Sophie Nieto-Muñoz, New Jersey Monitor The long-awaited opening of Jesse Marie Villars’ cannabis dispensary in Lambertville was a longtime goal for the previously underground

FL legalization petition arrests; GOP congressman backs rescheduling; Ukraine medical marijuana bill delayed; Record ME sales / TOP THINGS TO KNOW Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), a 2024 Democratic presidential candidate, suggested that President Joe Biden is simply too old to grasp the need to legalize marijuana. “I think it’s generational. “People in their 80s do

The year 2023 brought a mixed bag of federal developments in the marijuana space—marked by historic news such as the Biden administration’s rescheduling recommendation and pardon expansion, as well as setbacks on the congressional path to enacting cannabis banking reform. And with Congress now in recess for the holiday season, advocates and stakeholders are left

Plans to legalize medical marijuana in Ukraine have been delayed following actions by the opposition party Batkivshchyna to block the signing of a bill approved by the country’s unicameral legislature earlier this month. The leader of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party, Yulia Tymoshenko, who has consistently opposed the measure, said recently that her party intends to

Dean Phillips, the Minnesota congressman challenging Joe Biden in the Democratic primary, said in a newly published interview that the president is too old and out of touch to understand contemporary cannabis issues. “I think it’s generational,” Phillips said. “People in their 80s do not see things, have not lived things, have not experienced things